42 BIRDS OF SOUTHWESTERN MEXICO. 



S3T. ISBiteo noiMutu»^, Pelz. 



" Teb^uantppec Cily ; October, 18G9. 



" Iris browu ) bill black, extreme base of both mandibles bluish ; 

 cere greenish-yellow ; lores greenish ; feet yellow." 



238. Anlenor unicinctHS var. harrisi (And.) 



" Tehuautepec City ; October, 18G9. 



" Iris hazel brown ; cere, lores, and orbits yellow ; bill light bluish- 

 ash, tip dusky ; feet orange-yellow." 



239. Urtiljitinsa zonura (Shaw). 



"Tehuantepec (Santa Efi gen ia, Barrio) 5 Tehuantepec City j Chiapas 

 (Gineta Mountains) ; October to February. 

 " Iris brown ; cere greenish-yellow 5 feet yellow." 



240. Urubitin^a anthracina (Licht.). 



"Tehuantepec (Tapana, Santa Efigenia) ; December, January, Feb- 

 ruary, and May. 



" Iris brown ; cere and lores greenish-yellow ; feet yellow. 



" These two species of Urubitinga, of habits almost analogous, are 

 essentially river-birds, like the species of Cymindis ; that is to say, they 

 prefer the borders of rivers and of streams and wooded localities to all 

 other places. In Mexico, they never leave warm and temperate lati- 

 tudes, and even in the latter they are always rare. The kind of food is 

 varied; being naturally voracious, they despise no living prey, and I 

 have taken out of their stomachs small quadrupeds, young birds, rep- 

 tiles, Crustacea, and insects. They are fond of fish, and on the borders 

 of shallow brooks they easily catch the smaller kinds. When they are 

 at rest, their appearance is heavy and resembles that of the buzzards, 

 but on the wing their flight is easy and graceful. On fine days, they 

 can be seen wheeling at a great height, sometimes together, describing 

 large circles and giving out sharj) cries from time to time. On the 

 ground, they are not wild and are easily approached. They make their 

 nest, coarsely formed of small sticks, at the forks of the branches of 

 the highest trees. Toward the 15th of April I have found the young, 

 recently fledged and covered with a white down." 



241. €yiiilndi«^ cayenensis (Gm.). 



" Tehuantepec (Santa Efigenia) ; April, 1871. 



" Iris brown ; upper mandible black, the lower, cere, lores, eyelids, 

 and feet bluish-ash, the cere spotted with black. 



